Aphaenogaster pythia

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Aphaenogaster pythia Forel, 1915 valid

Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) pythia Forel, 1915b: 76 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Shattuck, 2008a: 41). Primary type locality: neotype Australia: Queensland, Millstream Nat. Park, nr Ravenshoe, 6.viii.1975 (B.B. Lowery). Primary type depository: ANIC. Type notes: Shattuck, 2008a: 41, also mentions another 40 workers, 2 queens, 1 male from the same nest as the neotype, deposited in ANIC, MCZC, QMBA.

Neotype designation: Shattuck, 2008a: 41.
Wheeler, 1916n: 220 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972b: 239 (l.)
Combination in Aphaenogaster (Nystalomyrma): Wheeler, 1916n: 219; Emery, 1921c: 61.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1916n: 219 (redescription); Emery, 1921c: 61; Crawley, 1922e: 20; Smith, 1961b: 229 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 55; Taylor, 1987a: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 72; Shattuck, 2008a: 41 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Crawley, W. C. 1922e. New ants from Australia (concluded from vol. ix. p. 449). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)10:16-36.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 2008a. Australian ants of the genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1677:25-45. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1961b. A study of New Guinea ants of the genus Aphaenogaster Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Hymenopterologica 1:213-238. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1972b. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmicinae: second supplement on the tribes Myrmicini and Pheidolini. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 7:233-246. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1916n. The Australian ants of the genus Aphaenogaster Mayr. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40:213-223. PDF

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